Happy Halloween.

What is this, reasonable discussion between two people with different views on the internet? thats not allowed! Joking aside, one thing I personally feel about a lot of the refund scares people jump into for many different reasons, is often silly. Its true that you should know what youre getting into before backing the game. That said, its really not *purchasing* the game, its an investment in the development of the game proposed. I have the impression that some do not fully understand this, and jump to think their money is being stolen and they were scammed because they dont have anything yet. Its complete fallacy. Investment inherently means chance of loss, we arent guaranteed that identity will succeed or come out. Things happen and things fail, but if everyone that funded the game in the first place jumped for refunds and bankrupted the project, of course its more likely to fail. Early acces titles have spoiled gamers with "pay now, get it now". Truth be told you end up playing a botched half of a game and get bored and move on long before you have even got what you paid for. This reason alone is why I have a bit more faith in Identity, modules to give us a taste of whats to come without totally squandering what the whole experience should be but in a broken and incomplete state.

People like you really have a fundamental lack of understanding how publicly funded projects work. Seriously, if it were up to me, I'd say no one should be allowed refunds as you aren't even buying the game, you're backing it.

This is ridiculously biased and also missing the point. We're talking about a mini-game within a game. Paintball simply stands out better because stylistically it looks different from the actual thing. Being a game, too, you can make the mechanics work pretty much how you want, its not a rant on the differences of equipment and regulations quality.